As much as I loath Wonka ..and I apologizes to those who are offended
But when wonka said…

"You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and its five years later. So let's be fair,"

It's the truth....
It’s been 5 years and still there is no Freedom tower
One year to build the empire state building?

As for New Orleans....…Personally I think it’s gone and a useless cause
And it will never be the same...
keep the historical sections in tack as for the rest...well time will tell..
We should all be ashamed…Especially with this up and coming anniversary
There is no one to blame but our self’s on this one...

The delivery of the 'hole in the ground' comment came off as an attempt to trivialize the WTC attack, as compared to Katrina.

Effectively, "My disaster is bigger than your disaster!"

Maybe the damage from Katrina was more widespread, but that doesn't make it all right to marginalize what happened in NYC with such a flippant remark. Almost twice as many Americans died on the 9/11 attacks as in Katrina, and almost NONE of those victims had any warning whatsoever.

Factor in that 'Willy Wonka' played a significant personal role in at least some of those Katrina deaths, due to his own indecision and inaction.

I couldn't care less if NYC ever builds anything on the WTC real estate or not.

The delivery of the 'hole in the ground' comment came off as an attempt to trivialize the WTC attack, as compared to Katrina.

Effectively, "My disaster is bigger than your disaster!"

But it was bigger, on every count but deaths. It is important to not parse his statement from the statements he was responding too:

Pitt---"You hear it all the time, 'Why can't you clean this area up faster than you have?' People blame you for that."

Nagan---"This is the cleaned-up version. I hate to put it in those terms. But right after Katrina, this was absolutely — you couldn't drive up this street," Nagin says. "We've cleaned up just about everything except for things on people's personal property. We have to contact a lot of these individuals and get their permissions to go here and demolish these properties."

Pitt---"But you can't get the cars out yet; you can’t get this demolished?"